Many people like to spend time with a cup of tea, this helps to distract from business and take a break from work. Next, we suggest that you familiarize yourself with a list of ten most useful herbs for brewing tea.
10. Rosehip
Rosehip is known for being rich in vitamins, especially a lot of vitamin C. It is an excellent tool to strengthen the immune system. In folk medicine, a rosehip decoction is often used in the treatment of acute respiratory viral infections and acute respiratory infections. It is also known that the plant is useful for anemia, pancreatitis, diseases of the digestive tract and pathologies with the cardiovascular system.
To get healing tea from rose hips, you need to take its berries in an amount of 8-10 pieces, carefully knead them, remove hairs from them (they can cause a negative reaction of the body), pour 300 ml of boiling water and let it brew for 15-20 minutes. Ready broth is filtered and drunk before meals two or three times a day, ½ cup.
9. Oregano (oregano)
Oregano is known to many as a fragrant spicy oregano seasoning, which is used in the preparation of a large number of various dishes. This plant has useful properties, it contains vitamins, sesquiterpenes, free alcohols, thymol, carvacrol, geranyl acetate, ascorbic acid, fatty oils. Herbal tea helps with many diseases, for example, it saves from insomnia and nervous disorders, is used as a medicine for worms, and is effective for diseases of the genitourinary system and disorders of the digestive tract.
You can get a healing decoction from oregano by brewing four tablespoons of the crushed plant with two glasses of boiling water. Next, let it brew for 25-30 minutes.
8. Chamomile
Chamomile is known for its antiviral, antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties. It contains flavonoids, essential oils, vitamins, choline, polysaccharides and many other healing components. Flowers are used in folk recipes for acute respiratory viral infections, as a means to strengthen the protective functions of the body, nervous system, vasodilator, anticonvulsant, choleretic, diaphoretic, lowering temperature, to normalize appetite.
To get a healing drink you need to brew a teaspoon of the plant with hot water, but not boiling water. Next, let the broth brew for 10-15 minutes, then strain. They drink chamomile tea in a warm form, you can add sugar or honey to it.
7. Lime color
Linden flowers contain many useful substances, thanks to which they are used to treat ulcers, remove toxins from the body, lower blood sugar, strengthen immunity, relieve joint pain, treat hemorrhoids and many other pathologies.
Linden tea has a pleasant taste, it has calming properties, gives a feeling of warmth and coziness. To prepare a drink, you need to pour a tablespoon of the healing plant with a glass of boiling water, let it brew for 30 minutes. Honey should be added to tea, so it will be tastier.
6. Thyme (thyme)
The composition of a short grassy bush includes essential oil, tannins, fats, resins, flavonoids, saponins, vitamins and other useful components. The plant has many properties, for example, it is used in alternative medicine recipes as an expectorant, has a diaphoretic effect, an antispasmodic effect, and is used as an anesthetic.
Tea from a fragrant plant is good in that it tones, improves performance, fights fatigue. They can successfully replace the usual coffee.
To get tea from the plant, you need to brew one teaspoon of its flowers, pour boiling water over them and let stand for 10-12 minutes, strain.
5. Mint
Mint tea is popular all over the world, since this plant, in addition to the beneficial components, has a pleasant taste and aroma in its composition. It is believed that tea brewed from the leaves of this plant successfully fights migraines, gives the person vitality.
To prepare a healing broth, boil some leaves of a dry or fresh plant with boiling water, let it brew for 5-7 minutes, strain, then use it as a drink.
4. Ivan tea
Ivan tea or fireweed narrow-leaved was popular in Ancient Russia, with its help healers treated many ailments. The plant has diuretic and choleretic effects, calming properties, normalizes blood composition, improves metabolic processes in the body, is an antiseptic, and fights against viruses and allergic reactions.
Prepare a drink by brewing two teaspoons of a dried medicinal plant 600 ml of boiling water. The broth is closed with a lid and infused for 15-20 minutes, then it is mixed and filtered. The composition will be of great benefit if it is allowed to cool and drink immediately after preparation, and not after a few hours or days.
3. St. John's wort
The plant has been successfully used to treat acute respiratory viral infections, inflammatory processes in the oral cavity, diseases of the digestive tract, to eliminate depression. Also St. John's wort is used for cosmetic purposes.
To get healing tea, you need to brew five grams of the plant with a glass of boiling water. Soak the composition for 7-10 minutes, then strain to sweeten the drink, you can add a teaspoon of honey.
2. Hawthorn
The plant is known for its beneficial composition, it contains pectins, flavonoids, organic acids, tannins and vitamins. It is used to treat liver diseases, effective for migraines, stress and depression.
To make tea from hawthorn, you need to pour dried berries with a glass of boiling water, leave for 10 minutes and strain. The finished drink is drunk on an empty stomach no more than three times a day.
1. Melissa
Melissa is famous for its calming effect, a decoction from the plant is also useful for people suffering from hypertension. To get tea from it, you need to brew fresh leaves in the amount of two teaspoons with a glass of very hot water, but not boiling water, stand the drink for 7-10 minutes, then strain and drink.